Re: Work Participation at EC | <– Date –> <– Thread –> |
From: Dahako (Dahakoaol.com) | |
Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2003 09:56:04 -0600 (MDT) |
Hi - I'm not at Eno Commons anymore, but I used to cook and eat there regularly. I think participation is high at EC because most members joined after the common meals tradition started (about 2 years before move-in). EC started regular food sharing with week-end pancake brunches at my dad's house, then graduated to Tuesday night pasta and after-meeting Sunday dinners, through potlucks and on to scheduled cooking teams. The general rule is "if you eat, you cook". Cooking teams get scheduled a calendar quarter at a time. If an EC adult has life circumstances that will keep him/her from cooking for a quarter, the scheduler is the only one who has to be told. That person still eats that quarter, on the expectation that he/she will return to galley duty when life permits. An example of this would be a person who has surgery in a particular quarter. Each cooking/cleaning team pays for the dinner it provides and most people see the dinners they cook as a gift or hospitality offered to the community. Sign-ups and contributions are only necessary for special celebratory meals. Otherwise, neighbors just show up for dinner. Guests, announced and unannounced, are pretty common - I showed up last weekend and was served a lovely summer meal. -Jessie Handforth Kome Eastern Village Cohousing Silver Spring, MD Where we haven't figured out the details of cooking for 55 households. But we know we will someday. _______________________________________________ Cohousing-L mailing list Cohousing-L [at] cohousing.org Unsubscribe and other info: http://www.cohousing.org/cohousing-L
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